Improvement in washing-machines



NTTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GIDEON HUNTINGTON, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,597, dated March 9,1875; application filed January 4, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GIDEoN HUNTINGTON, of Toronto, in the Province ofOntario and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and ImprovedWashing-Machine, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a side elevation,partly in section, of my improved Washing-machine; and Fig. 2, avertical transverse section of the same on the line c c, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention is an improvement in the class of washing-machines inwhich a clothes-holding open-Work drum or cylinder is arranged to rotatein a tub or vessel set over a furnace.

The invention consists in operating the clothes-drum by means of avertical rocking standard, a connecting-bar, cords, and a pulley, whichlatter is mounted on the drumshaft, as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, Arepresents the cylindrical clothes-drum, which turns insuitable bearings of an inclosing casing or boiler, B, With detachabletop part B', having flange a. The metallic drum-heads O are connected byrounds or bars having small interstices between them. The heads O Iaremade of a metallic supporting-frame, O', With radial arms, centralshaft, and circumferential rim. Atop section, A', of the drum is hingedto the main section and locked by-spring-latches E or other similarlocking devices. The boiler is placed on a heater or furnace, F, Withsliding damper F', (covering openings a or c, according to its positiom)for regulating the iire.

The drum is reciprocated by a rocking standard, G, a horizontal bar, H,pivoted thereto, and straps or cords I, which are Wound in reverseddirections around the pulley J of the drum-shaft, and attached to saidbar H. By applying the foot to the rocker the standard G is vibrated,and the desired motion imparted to the drum.

What I claim is- In a washing-machine, the combination ot' the vibratingrocker-standard G, horizontal bar H, cords I, pulley J, and drum A, allcombined and operating as shown and described.

GIDEON HUNTINGTON.

Witnesses:

W. FITZGERALD, N. S. HOGE.

